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Abandoned by her family in Plague-ridden Dominion City, eighteen-year-old Lucy Fox has no choice but to rely upon the kindness of the True Borns, a renegade group of genetically enhanced humans, to save her twin sister, Margot. But Nolan Storm, their mysterious leader, has his own agenda. When Storm backtracks on his promise to rescue Margot, Lucy takes her fate into her own hands and sets off for Russia with her True Born bodyguard and maybe-something-more, the lethal yet beautiful Jared Price. In Russia, there's been whispered rumors of Plague Cure.

While Lucy fights her magnetic attraction to Jared, anxious that his loyalty to Storm will hurt her chances of finding her sister, they quickly discover that not all is as it appears…and discovering the secrets contained in the Fox sisters' blood before they wind up dead is just the beginning.

As they say in Dominion, sometimes it’s not you…it’s your DNA.

Talk about Second Book Syndrome. Despite really loving the first book (see here for my review), I struggled to get into this. It took 25% of the book to actually get interesting for me, so it’s a miracle I didn’t DNF it at some point.

At the end of True Born, the first book in the trilogy, twin sisters Lucy and Margot are separated. Margot goes off with their parents and some random dude to Russia, while Lucy stayed behind with the True Borns (and Jared, tbh). True North picks up four months later, and nothing really has happened. Lucy has no idea where Margot is and hasn’t felt her through their psychic connection, and she’s still living with sort-of guardian Nolan Storm. Aside from some parties and a number of idiotic moves on Lucy’s part, still nothing happens after the book begins. It was dull.

And the pacing issues continued throughout. It felt slow, then jumped, then slow again, and then a whole lot happened at the end in terms of information being revealed (some real WTF stuff, too), but I felt no real sense of OMG DANGER. It was anticlimactic.

Some of the things that I loved about True Born were the X-Men-esque powers and chemistry between Lucy and Jared. Well, on top of not doing a great job of reminding what happened in the first book (I had to read my review of it), there was very little excitement on the supernatural front for a while, and Jared was doing that whole “I asked you to stay and now I’m going to ice you out for months” thing. Are you rolling your eyes, too? The romance did eventually steam up a bit, but it was frustrating and cliché. And ok, there was some explanation in the end, but blaaaah. That being said, some of those hot moments were hot.

All in all, while some moment were enjoyable, and it did get the plot of the series from one point to another, it was all filler no thriller. I will be reading book 3, as I need closure, both with the insane plot and the star-crossed romance between Lucy and Jared.

Click for a prediction about Alistair… View Spoiler »I’m calling Alistair and Margot, by the way. I knew from almost the moment he was introduced that he was being inserted for Margot. We shall see, shan’t we? « Hide Spoiler

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